[Web4lib] Non-printable pages?

[gillikind at aol.com]

Well, there's also the fact that all you'd be accomplishing is making it harder for people to print your content, but not stop them.  As long as a user can save your content electronically (save a file or copy and paste), they can print your content. Perhaps the requester needs to be better educated about what can and cannot be done with html files.
 
David Gillikin
National Library of Medicine
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Sent: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:42:49 -0400
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Non-printable pages?


On 6/22/2006 2:09 PM, Jim Brucker wrote:

> I'm creating a tutorial and I'd like to keep it simple and use html. 
> Unfortunately, I was recently told that people should not be able to
> print the pages.


We probably need more information on who is telling you to do something
this user-hostile, and why.  I can't understand any reason for doing
this, and if my library tried to do this to me as a user, I'd raise a
stink about it.  Odds are this will boomerang, and you'll get an urgent
assignment to re-enable printing (and that request will probably reach
you at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon).


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Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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